London 2012: because contingency are built opposite you winning the Olympic sheet lottery

By Jacquelin Magnay 736PM GMT twenty-two March 2010

Big pull but will you be there if Usain Bolt sets a new Olympic jot down in London? Photo GETTY

But it is not going to happen. Only a propitious 80,000 will be there for the Olympic flagship event. What are the contingency one of them is you?

As organisers suggested on Monday, twenty-five per cent of the tickets are saved for broadcasters, sponsors and abroad Olympic committees.

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That leaves 60,000 seats for the public.

But each person submitting application will be equates to to ask a mixed of tickets, probably 4 or five (Locog has not nonetheless set the limits), so there will be around 12,000-15,000 propitious buyers equates to to take the sum family.

Now, my maths is not as well flash, but if usually five per cent of Londoners, and one per cent of the rest of Britain relates for tickets, that equates to there will be direct of around one million. The rest of the European Union can request for the tickets too, so that could meant a million more. If there are dual million field a really regressive guess at majority appropriate you would have a 133-1 chance.

-- ReadSport"s London 2012 tickets Q&A by Olympics Editor, Jacquelin Magnay

Fans were induction their seductiveness at a rate of 10,000 an hour on Monday, and a lot some-more people will request since it is the complicated version of winning the lottery. If their propitious series gets pulled out, they can be sincerely assured of being equates to to sell it on if they don"t wish the experience themselves.

For the opening rite supplement an additional 0 or dual to the odds. It is the majority renouned eventuality of all the Olympic competitions.

The levels of direct is contingent on affordability. (The quandary here, of course, is that the euro is so clever opposite the bruise at the impulse it will fuel even higher EU interest).

There is a sum of 7 and a half million tickets to be sole for the Olympics and Paralympics. The sum income indispensable to be lifted is �441 million. If five million tickets are sole at �50 each, raising �250 million, that leaves the superfluous 2.5 million tickets wanting to lift �190 million that"s �76 each on average.

But organisers have betrothed a little sheet prices will be set lower, at around �20. The some-more expected unfolding is that tickets to all of the athletics" finals, the ceremonies and high-demand small venues similar to the velodrome, weightlifting and aquatics centre will be labelled at the top end.

The organisers know that people will widen their bill for a little of those reward sessions. So, begin saving now, and see for that propitious four-leaf clover.